diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/.helmignore b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/.helmignore
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+# Patterns to ignore when building packages.
+# This supports shell glob matching, relative path matching, and
+# negation (prefixed with !). Only one pattern per line.
+.DS_Store
+# Common VCS dirs
+.git/
+.gitignore
+.bzr/
+.bzrignore
+.hg/
+.hgignore
+.svn/
+# Common backup files
+*.swp
+*.bak
+*.tmp
+*.orig
+*~
+# Various IDEs
+.project
+.idea/
+*.tmproj
+.vscode/
diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/Chart.yaml b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/Chart.yaml
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+apiVersion: v2
+name: sophora-cluster-common
+description: A Helm chart containing some common resources useful for Sophora cloud setups
+type: application
+version: 1.0.0
+appVersion: "4"
diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/README.md b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/README.md
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+# Sophora Cluster Common
+
+This Helm chart contains resources that are useful for a Sophora cloud-installation in general and are not tied to
+one specific product.
+
+The available resources in this chart are described in the following and are all optional and can be configured to one's
+needs.
+
+## Available Resources
+
+### PodDistruptionBudget for Cluster Servers
+
+This will install a PodDisruptionBudget for the Sophora Cluster Servers (primary and replicas) to prevent situations
+where all servers are shut down simultaneously. The PDB for staging servers can be installed via the server Helm chart.
+
+### "LoadBalancer" for Cluster Servers
+
+This is not actually a load balancer but rather a service and ingress definition always pointing to the primary Sophora 
+server. Typically, this is used to create a deterministic endpoint that can be entered by users to log in to Sophora.
+To work out of the box, this requires that the *Server Mode Labeler* sidecar container of the servers is active (should be
+by default).
+
+### Alerts
+
+This will install alerts that are not tied to one specific application but rather the general Sophora cluster state.
+Look into the [alerting-runbook.md](./alerting-runbook.md) to see which alerts are available. Also check out the application's
+charts to see if there are application specific alerts available.
+
+## Parameters
+
+### Common parameters
+
+| Name               | Description                               | Value |
+| ------------------ | ----------------------------------------- | ----- |
+| `nameOverride`     | String to partially override the name     | `""`  |
+| `fullnameOverride` | String to fully override the release name | `""`  |
+
+### Cluster Server Loadbalancer
+
+| Name                                                                      | Description                                               | Value               |
+| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------- |
+| `clusterServerLb.enabled`                                                 | whether the service and ingress should be deployed or not | `false`             |
+| `clusterServerLb.name`                                                    | names of the resources                                    | `cluster-server-lb` |
+| `clusterServerLb.ingress.enabled`                                         | whether the ingress should be enabled                     | `true`              |
+| `clusterServerLb.ingress.ingressClassName`                                | name of the ingressClass used for the ingress             | `""`                |
+| `clusterServerLb.ingress.annotations`                                     | annotations for the ingress                               | `{}`                |
+| `clusterServerLb.ingress.hosts`                                           | array with hostnames used for the ingress                 | `[]`                |
+| `clusterServerLb.service.type`                                            | Kubernetes service type                                   | `ClusterIP`         |
+| `clusterServerLb.service.selectorLabels.sophora.cloud/app`                | labels used to select the primary Sophora server          | `cluster-server`    |
+| `clusterServerLb.service.selectorLabels.server.sophora.cloud/server-mode` | labels used to select the primary Sophora server          | `primary`           |
+| `clusterServerLb.service.httpPort`                                        | the Sophora server's http port                            | `1196`              |
+| `clusterServerLb.service.jmsPort`                                         | the Sophora server's jms port                             | `1197`              |
+| `clusterServerLb.service.publishNotReadyAddresses`                        | whether the service should publish not ready addresses    | `true`              |
+
+### Cluster Server Pod Disruption Budget
+
+| Name                                                | Description                                | Value                    |
+| --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------ |
+| `podDisruptionBudget.enabled`                       | whether the PDB should be installed or not | `false`                  |
+| `podDisruptionBudget.name`                          | name of the PDB                            | `sophora-cluster-server` |
+| `podDisruptionBudget.minAvailable`                  | minimum available replicas                 | `2`                      |
+| `podDisruptionBudget.matchLabels.sophora.cloud/app` | selector label for the cluster servers     | `cluster-server`         |
+
+### Alerting / Prometheus Rules
+
+| Name                                  | Description                                   | Value   |
+| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------- |
+| `prometheusRules.enabled`             | Whether the alerts should be installed        | `false` |
+| `prometheusRules.defaultRulesEnabled` | Whether the default rules should be installed | `true`  |
+| `prometheusRules.rules`               | allows to add custom rules                    | `[]`    |
+
+### Extra Deploy
+
+| Name          | Description                                                | Value |
+| ------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | ----- |
+| `extraDeploy` | Allows to specify custom resources that should be deployed | `[]`  |
+
diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/alerting-runbook.md b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/alerting-runbook.md
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+# Alerting Runbook
+
+This document is a reference to the alerts this Helm chart can fire.
+
+## Sophora Cluster Common
+
+### NoPrimarySophoraServer
+
+**Severity:** critical
+
+**Summary:** The Sophora Cluster has no primary server. No operations with client tools will succeed and no further
+replication will happen to other running servers, if there are any.
+
+**Remediation steps:**
+
+* Check if the Sophora cluster is down for another maintenance or incident remediation
+* Check if the deployment has been uninstalled by mistake
+* Check whether the server might have crashed
+* Check the server logs for error messages
+* Check if it would be possible to elect another cluster server to the primary. This should be done carefully to ensure no data is lost.
+* Try to restart the server, if it is running but unresponsive
+* Restore the server from a working backup
+
+### SophoraServerNotInSync
+
+**Severity:** high
+
+**Summary:** The Sophora server is not in sync. This is concluded from comparing the server's *SourceTime* with the 
+SourceTime of the primary server. The SourceTime is the timestamp of the latest event that occured on the primary server.
+Usually the SourceTimes of the servers should not diverge too much and stay equal when compared over a short time frame.
+
+**Remediation steps:**
+
+* Check if the primary server logged a message containing "ReplicationMaster stopped". If yes: The primary server needs to be
+restarted **without electing another server to the primary**. The last part is absolutely critical to prevent data loss. As
+the servers automatically switch using a shutdown hook, a workaround is to exec into the container and replace the
+shutdown hook located in the `/tools/` directory with an empty executable file before restarting the server. Note that during the restart 
+working with Sophora will not be possible for a few minutes. If the error persists check the logs of the primary
+to find error logs hinting at the root cause of the problem.
+* Check if there is a large replication queue (e.g. due to a large amount of imports), which would result in a short replication
+delay
+* Check whether the not-in-sync server is in an erroneous state and stopped receiving replication messages
+* Check whether network connection issues between the server and the primary server exist
+* Check the server's and the primary server's logs for errors or warnings
+* Restart the server
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diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/_helpers.tpl b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/_helpers.tpl
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+{{/*
+Expand the name of the chart.
+*/}}
+{{- define "sophora-cluster-common.name" -}}
+{{- default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" }}
+{{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Create a default fully qualified app name.
+We truncate at 63 chars because some Kubernetes name fields are limited to this (by the DNS naming spec).
+If release name contains chart name it will be used as a full name.
+*/}}
+{{- define "sophora-cluster-common.fullname" -}}
+{{- if .Values.fullnameOverride }}
+{{- .Values.fullnameOverride | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" }}
+{{- else }}
+{{- $name := default .Chart.Name .Values.nameOverride }}
+{{- if contains $name .Release.Name }}
+{{- .Release.Name | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" }}
+{{- else }}
+{{- printf "%s-%s" .Release.Name $name | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Create chart name and version as used by the chart label.
+*/}}
+{{- define "sophora-cluster-common.chart" -}}
+{{- printf "%s-%s" .Chart.Name .Chart.Version | replace "+" "_" | trunc 63 | trimSuffix "-" }}
+{{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Common labels
+*/}}
+{{- define "sophora-cluster-common.labels" -}}
+helm.sh/chart: {{ include "sophora-cluster-common.chart" . }}
+{{ include "sophora-cluster-common.selectorLabels" . }}
+{{- if .Chart.AppVersion }}
+app.kubernetes.io/version: {{ .Chart.AppVersion | quote }}
+{{- end }}
+app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: {{ .Release.Service }}
+{{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Selector labels
+*/}}
+{{- define "sophora-cluster-common.selectorLabels" -}}
+app.kubernetes.io/name: {{ include "sophora-cluster-common.name" . }}
+app.kubernetes.io/instance: {{ .Release.Name }}
+{{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Create the name of the service account to use
+*/}}
+{{- define "sophora-cluster-common.serviceAccountName" -}}
+{{- if .Values.serviceAccount.create }}
+{{- default (include "sophora-cluster-common.fullname" .) .Values.serviceAccount.name }}
+{{- else }}
+{{- default "default" .Values.serviceAccount.name }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- end }}
+
+{{/*
+Renders a value that contains template.
+Usage:
+{{ include "common.tplvalues.render" ( dict "value" .Values.path.to.the.Value "context" $) }}
+*/}}
+{{- define "common.tplvalues.render" -}}
+    {{- if typeIs "string" .value }}
+        {{- tpl .value .context }}
+    {{- else }}
+        {{- tpl (.value | toYaml) .context }}
+    {{- end }}
+{{- end -}}
diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/alerts/prometheusrule.yaml b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/alerts/prometheusrule.yaml
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+{{- if .Values.prometheusRules.enabled }}
+{{- $defaultRulesEnabled := .Values.prometheusRules.defaultRulesEnabled }}
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: PrometheusRule
+metadata:
+  name: {{ include "sophora-cluster-common.fullname" . }}
+  labels: {{- include "sophora-cluster-common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+spec:
+  groups:
+    - name: {{ template "sophora-cluster-common.fullname" $ }}
+      rules:
+        {{- if $defaultRulesEnabled }}
+        - alert: NoPrimarySophoraServer
+          for: 2m
+          expr: 'count(sophora_server_replication_mode == 1) == 0'
+          labels:
+            severity: critical
+          annotations:
+            summary: The Sophora Cluster has no primary.
+            description: No primary elected in the cluster for more than 2 minutes.
+            runbook_url: 'https://github.com/subshell/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/sophora-cluster-common/alerting-runbook.md'
+        - alert: SophoraServerNotInSync
+          for: 2m
+          expr: 'max((sophora_server_source_time and sophora_server_is_primary_server == 1)) - max by (pod) (sophora_server_source_time and sophora_server_state == 2) > 60000'
+          labels:
+            severity: high
+          annotations:
+            summary: Server is not in sync
+            description: The server  "{{`{{ $labels.pod }}`}}" is not in sync for more than 2 minutes.
+            runbook_url: 'https://github.com/subshell/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/sophora-cluster-common/alerting-runbook.md'
+        {{- end }}
+        {{- with .Values.prometheusRules.rules }}
+        {{ tpl (toYaml .) $ | nindent 8 }}
+        {{- end }}
+{{- end }}
diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/extra-deploy.yaml b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/extra-deploy.yaml
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+{{- range .Values.extraDeploy }}
+---
+{{ include "common.tplvalues.render" (dict "value" . "context" $) }}
+{{- end }}
+
diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/lb/ingress.yaml b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/lb/ingress.yaml
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+{{- if .Values.clusterServerLb.enabled }}
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Values.clusterServerLb.name }}
+  labels:
+  {{- include "sophora-cluster-common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- with .Values.clusterServerLb.ingress.annotations }}
+  annotations:
+  {{- toYaml . | nindent 4 }}
+  {{- end }}
+spec:
+  {{- if .Values.clusterServerLb.ingress.ingressClassName }}
+  ingressClassName: {{ .Values.clusterServerLb.ingress.ingressClassName }}
+  {{- end -}}
+  {{- if .Values.clusterServerLb.ingress.tls }}
+  tls:
+    {{- range .Values.clusterServerLb.ingress.tls }}
+    - hosts:
+        {{- range .hosts }}
+        - {{ . | quote }}
+      {{- end }}
+      secretName: {{ .secretName }}
+  {{- end }}
+  {{- end }}
+  rules:
+    {{- range .Values.clusterServerLb.ingress.hosts }}
+    - host: {{ .host | quote }}
+      http:
+        paths:
+          - path: {{ .path }}
+            pathType: {{ default "ImplementationSpecific" .pathType }}
+            backend:
+              service:
+                name: {{ $.Values.clusterServerLb.name }}
+                port:
+                  number: {{ $.Values.clusterServerLb.service.httpPort }}
+  {{- end }}
+{{- end }}
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diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/lb/service.yaml b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/lb/service.yaml
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+{{- if .Values.clusterServerLb.enabled }}
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .Values.clusterServerLb.name }}
+  labels: {{- include "sophora-cluster-common.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
+  annotations: {{- toYaml .Values.clusterServerLb.service.annotations | nindent 4 }}
+spec:
+  type: ClusterIP
+  selector: {{- toYaml .Values.clusterServerLb.service.selectorLabels | nindent 4 }}
+  sessionAffinity: ClientIP
+  publishNotReadyAddresses: {{ .Values.clusterServerLb.service.publishNotReadyAddresses }}
+  sessionAffinityConfig:
+    clientIP:
+      timeoutSeconds: 3600
+  ports:
+    - port: {{ .Values.clusterServerLb.service.httpPort }}
+      targetPort: http
+      protocol: TCP
+      name: http
+    - port: {{ .Values.clusterServerLb.service.jmsPort }}
+      targetPort: jms
+      protocol: TCP
+      name: jms
+{{- end }}
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diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/pdb/pdb.yaml b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/templates/pdb/pdb.yaml
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+{{- if .Values.podDisruptionBudget.enabled }}
+{{- with .Values.podDisruptionBudget }}
+apiVersion: policy/v1
+kind: PodDisruptionBudget
+metadata:
+  name: {{ .name }}
+  labels: {{- include "sophora-cluster-common.labels" $ | nindent 4 }}
+spec:
+  minAvailable: {{ .minAvailable }}
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      {{- .matchLabels | toYaml | nindent 6 }}
+{{- end }}
+{{- end }}
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diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/test-values.yaml b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/test-values.yaml
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+clusterServerLb:
+  enabled: true
+  ingress:
+    ingressClassName: "nginx"
+    hosts:
+      - host: "cms.mysophora.com"
+
+podDisruptionBudget:
+  enabled: true
+
+prometheusRules:
+  enabled: true
+  defaultRulesEnabled: true
+  rules:
+    - alert: Foo
+      expr: bar_metric > 10
+
+extraDeploy:
+  - apiVersion: subshell/v2
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diff --git a/charts/sophora-cluster-common/values.yaml b/charts/sophora-cluster-common/values.yaml
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+## @section Common parameters
+##
+
+## @param nameOverride String to partially override the name
+nameOverride: ""
+
+## @param fullnameOverride String to fully override the release name
+fullnameOverride: ""
+
+## @section Cluster Server Loadbalancer
+## Parameters which configure service and ingress that point to the primary cluster server
+##
+clusterServerLb:
+
+  ## @param clusterServerLb.enabled whether the service and ingress should be deployed or not
+  enabled: false
+  ## @param clusterServerLb.name names of the resources
+  name: cluster-server-lb
+
+  ingress:
+    ## @param clusterServerLb.ingress.enabled whether the ingress should be enabled
+    enabled: true
+    ## @param clusterServerLb.ingress.ingressClassName name of the ingressClass used for the ingress
+    ingressClassName: ""
+    ## @param clusterServerLb.ingress.annotations annotations for the ingress
+    annotations: {}
+    ## @param clusterServerLb.ingress.hosts array with hostnames used for the ingress
+    ## e.g.
+    ## hosts:
+    ##   - host: "cms.mysophora.com"
+    hosts: []
+    #  - host: ""
+    #    path: /
+
+  service:
+    ## @param clusterServerLb.service.type Kubernetes service type
+    type: ClusterIP
+    selectorLabels:
+      ## @param clusterServerLb.service.selectorLabels.sophora.cloud/app labels used to select the primary Sophora server
+      sophora.cloud/app: cluster-server
+      ## @param clusterServerLb.service.selectorLabels.server.sophora.cloud/server-mode labels used to select the primary Sophora server
+      server.sophora.cloud/server-mode: primary
+    ## @param clusterServerLb.service.httpPort the Sophora server's http port
+    httpPort: 1196
+    ## @param clusterServerLb.service.jmsPort the Sophora server's jms port
+    jmsPort: 1197
+    ## @param clusterServerLb.service.publishNotReadyAddresses whether the service should publish not ready addresses
+    publishNotReadyAddresses: true
+
+## @section Cluster Server Pod Disruption Budget
+## Configuration of the PodDisruptionBudget for the Sophora Cluster Servers (primary and replicas)
+##
+podDisruptionBudget:
+  ## @param podDisruptionBudget.enabled whether the PDB should be installed or not
+  enabled: false
+  ## @param podDisruptionBudget.name name of the PDB
+  name: sophora-cluster-server
+  ## @param podDisruptionBudget.minAvailable minimum available replicas
+  minAvailable: 2
+  ## @param podDisruptionBudget.matchLabels.sophora.cloud/app selector label for the cluster servers
+  matchLabels:
+    sophora.cloud/app: cluster-server
+
+## @section Alerting / Prometheus Rules
+## Configuration of the alerting rules
+##
+prometheusRules:
+  ## @param prometheusRules.enabled Whether the alerts should be installed
+  enabled: false
+  ## @param prometheusRules.defaultRulesEnabled Whether the default rules should be installed
+  defaultRulesEnabled: true
+  ## @param prometheusRules.rules allows to add custom rules
+  rules: []
+
+## @section Extra Deploy
+##
+## @param extraDeploy Allows to specify custom resources that should be deployed
+extraDeploy: []
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